csli.util.nlp.stem
Class IrregularStemmer

java.lang.Object
  csli.util.nlp.Stemmer
      csli.util.nlp.stem.IrregularStemmer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class IrregularStemmer
extends Stemmer

Simple lookup table of English irregular verb/noun inflected forms

Author:

mpurver

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

IrregularStemmer()

Method Summary

String

stem(String wordString) Stem a word string.

Methods inherited from class csli.util.nlp.Stemmer

stem, stem, stemScored

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

IrregularStemmer

public IrregularStemmer()

Method Detail

stem

public String stem(String wordString)

Description copied from class: Stemmer

Stem a word string. Should return NULL on error.

Specified by:

stem in class Stemmer

Parameters:

wordString - the word string to stem

Returns:

the word stem (root form) as a string